Consultant Psychiatrist - Psychiatric Intensive Care and ECT Service

Job summary

The post-holder will be Consultant Psychiatrist to Greyfriars PICU at Wotton Lawn Hospital, Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust. Greyfriars is a 10-bed purpose built PICU for working-age adults. The unit is mixed sex, accommodating 3 female service users in a dedicated area of the ward, as well as an interchangeable accessible bedroom.

2PA within the job-plan will be dedicated to our ECT service, supporting an expansion of the service.

Main duties of the job

The Consultant will provide senior medical leadership and responsibility for all patients on the PICU. The unit works exclusively with patients under the Mental Health Act, and the post-holder will be the Responsible Clinician (RC). They will lead their medical team of Specialty and Resident doctors, working collaboratively with the wider multi-disciplinary team, patients and their families to ensure safe and effective care-delivery. The Consultant will work closely with operational management colleagues, the acute inpatient wards and with the Crisis Resolution/ Home Treatment Team and the Community Recovery Teams. This is to ensure that admissions are purposeful and productive, enabling their patients to be stepped down from intensive psychiatric care and return home as soon as possible.

There is a well-established ECT service at Wotton Lawn Hospital, which is accredited under the RCPsych ECTAS scheme. The service has also been recognised by the RCPsych for its innovative 'ECT Caf' - This was launched in 2024 to enable patients and carers and NHS colleagues to have collaborative conversations about ECT, to ask questions and share experiences. The PICU element of this role will support an expansion of service delivery and continuous improvement.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Details

Date posted

01 May 2026

Pay scheme

Hospital medical and dental staff

Grade

Consultant

Salary

£109,725 to £145,478 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

327-26-326

Job locations

Wotton Lawn Hospital

Horton Road

Gloucester

GL1 3WL

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